(n.) The anterior, and in man the larger, division of the brain; the seat of the reasoning faculties and the will. See Brain.
Example Sentences:
(1) Moderately higher GLUT3 mRNA levels were detected in the parietal lobe of the cerebrum, hippocampus, and cerebellum than the levels of GLUT1 transcripts.
(2) Protein kinase II activity was localized predominantly in the 100,000g particulate fraction of cerebrum and testis, in the supernatant fraction of heart, liver, adrenal, and kidney, and about equally distributed between particulate and supernatant in spleen and lung.
(3) Attempts were made to characterize mitochondrial malate dehydrogenase [L-malate: NAD+ oxidoreductase, EC 1.1.1.37] (M-MDH) purified from bovine cerebrum and to elucidate the mechanisms responsible for inhibition of the enzymic activity by Ag+.
(4) This hereditary lipidosis is characterized pathologically by demyelination, loss of axons, and replacement of the white matter of the caudal cerebrum by a glial scar.
(5) No significant difference between normal and thyroidectomized rats was revealed in this respect on both the cerebrum and brain stem throughout the experimental periods.
(6) Detergent-unextractable structures of synaptic plasma membrane of rat cerebrum were observed by whole mount electron microscopy.
(7) A coronal section of the cerebrum clearly demonstrated a large tumor in the left frontal lobe with small mass in the right frontal lobe (Fig.
(8) In this retrospective study the findings of visual acuity, visual field and papillae of 204 patients operated on the cerebrum were determined and the significance of the morphological factors (position and size of the defect of the cerebral parenchyma, extent of the cerebral ventricles, degree of the cortical atrophy, influence of dignity) for the persisting ophthalmological deficiency phenomena was pointed out.
(9) Primary cultures of mixed glial cells from rat cerebrum and cerebellum, purified oligodendrocytes and astrocytes, as well as two glial tumor cell lines were screened for the expression of glucocorticoid receptors using a mouse monoclonal antibody directed against rat liver GR (BuGR-2).
(10) The IC50 values obtained for these antagonists to block the carbachol-induced PPI turnover cycle in the synaptosomes from the cerebrum were close to the values obtained for the displacement of 3H-QNB binding to the same preparation, and were far away from those values obtained in the synaptosomes from the cerebellum.
(11) Dissociated explants of 8-day-old embryonic chick cerebrum were cultured for up to 18 days.
(12) Electrophysiological studies also revealed the involvements of cerebrum and brain stem.
(13) The ratio of albumin concentration in the cerebellum or in the cerebrum to that in the plasma 2 h after the injection, hereinafter termed the relative albumin level (RA), was calculated and used as a criterion for the albumin transfer.
(14) It is known that the copper concentration and copper-containing enzyme activity are low in cerebrum of mottled mice as well as of patients with Menkes' disease.
(15) In the same animals the calcium content in the cerebrum was independent of plasma calcium between 0.5 and 1.5 mM but rose at higher plasma concentrations.
(16) Low levels of CGRP (less than 500) were detected in the cerebrum, subcortical nuclei and cerebellum.
(17) It was speculated that the CTBP has a specific function in cerebrum at the time of birth although the action of the CTBP is not certain.
(18) The ontogeny of presynaptic elements of GABAergic neurons has been studied in the cerebrum of the chick embryo both in vivo and in vitro.
(19) Gross and histopathologic lesions of the cerebrum included an extensive necrotic cavitation within one cerebral hemisphere, disruption and rarefication of the subcortical white matter, prominent perivascular hemorrhage, and some mononuclear cell perivascular cuffing.
(20) The RA in both the cerebellum and the cerebrum decreased with age, but plateaued between days 28 and 70.
Hemisphere
Definition:
(n.) A half sphere; one half of a sphere or globe, when divided by a plane passing through its center.
(n.) Half of the terrestrial globe, or a projection of the same in a map or picture.
(n.) The people who inhabit a hemisphere.
Example Sentences:
(1) Our findings indicate that Turner girls have a functional brain disorder more often than the controls, particularly at the occipital and parietal areas and in those with hemispheric differences most often in the right hemisphere.
(2) After 2 weeks the rats were sacrificed and the brain damage evaluated by comparing the weight of the lesioned and unlesioned hemispheres.
(3) For SP and NKA the decrease was apparent in all brain regions and both in the right and left hemispheres.
(4) Right hemisphere inactivation caused a decrease in the frequency of lateral hypothalamus self-stimulation, whereas with left hemisphere inactivation it increased, which testifies to right hemisphere dominance in self-stimulation reaction.
(5) Computer-aided axial tomography revealed progressive development of atrophy of the left hemisphere and compensatory dilatation of the ventricles.
(6) Reduced uptake was observed in the left cerebral hemisphere (-13.9%) contralateral to the cerebellar infarction with the most marked reduction in the left premotor region (-21%).
(7) Subsequently, due to the rotation of the original polar axis in one hemisphere, the third cleavage plane through one half of the egg is transverse to the third cleavage plane through the other half.
(8) Dissociated cerebral hemisphere cells from 4- to 7-day-old chick embryos were cultured either on a collagen or a polylysine substrate in a serum-containing medium.
(9) Thirty-three emotional reactions occurred in 26 patients, 44% of the reactions following right hemisphere injection and 32% after injection of the left hemisphere.
(10) The buccal glands of adults of the Southern Hemisphere lamprey Geotria australis consist of a pair of small, bean-shaped, hollow sacs, embedded within the basilaris muscle in the region below the eyes and to either side of the piston cartilage.
(11) Blood flows to contralateral cerebral hemispheric structures were relatively unchanged from prehypoxic values, whereas flows to the brainstem and cerebellum nearly doubled and tripled, respectively.
(12) The Xenopus Vg1 gene encodes a maternal mRNA that is localized to the vegetal hemisphere of both oocytes and embryos and encodes a protein related to the TGF-beta family of small secreted growth factors.
(13) Nucleotide substitutions in the viral-encoded proteinase 3C (3Cpro) region (549 nucleotides) of the RNA genome of a coxsackievirus A24 variant (CA24v), one of the agents causing acute hemorrhagic conjunctivitis (AHC), were studied using 32 isolates collected from the Eastern hemisphere in 1970-1989.
(14) Study of the clinical characteristics of depressive state by hemisphere stroke with the use of symptom items of Zung scale and Hamilton scale showed that patients in depressive state with right hemisphere stroke had high values in symptom items considered close to the essence of endogenous depression such as depressed mood, suicide, diurnal variation, loss of weight, and paranoid symptoms, while patients in depressive state with left hemisphere stroke had high values in symptom items having a nuance of so-called neurotic depression such as psychic anxiety, hypochondriasis, and fatigue.
(15) CT scan showed diffuse hypodensities in the left hemisphere.
(16) Therefore, rehabilitation specialists should treat patients who had brain strokes, taking into consideration the localization of the lesion focus and promote the use of techniques directed toward a correction of specific right hemispheric defects.
(17) The loss of summer sea ice has led to unusual warming of the Arctic atmosphere, that in turn impacts weather patterns in the northern hemisphere , that can result in persistent extreme weather such as droughts, heatwaves and flooding," she said.
(18) In retrospective review of survivors of neonatal extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, eight patients with varying degrees of right hemispheric brain injury were identified.
(19) Mean hemispheric CBF (mCBF) was measured in each patient by Xe-133 inhalation method before and after 7 days of captopril administration.
(20) The interposed nuclei projected mainly to the paravermis-medial hemispheric zone of the cerebellar cortex.